Linguistics Archives - Alok Govil Simplifier in Science, Technology, and Life Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:28:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://alokgovil.com/wp-content/uploads/root/cropped-alok-govil-32x32.jpg Linguistics Archives - Alok Govil 32 32 Interview by Qeemle https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/ https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:41:39 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=365 High competition has made education focus more on securing employment, has reduced interests to choosing professions, constrained learning to predefined syllabuses, and turned careers into ‘jobs’. How should young students looking forward to their lives discover the true nature of the choices ahead, and establish themselves in the society and economy? How should they even […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/feed/ 0 The Future is Behind Us! https://alokgovil.com/the-future-is-behind-us/ https://alokgovil.com/the-future-is-behind-us/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:28:03 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=135 In English, future is ahead of us. In Aymara, it is behind us! That is a better system actually, since we can see the past ahead of us, but not the future behind. We use the past to take limited guesses on what the future may hold. It ain’t much different from walking backwards. We […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/the-future-is-behind-us/feed/ 0 Gender Equality in Communication and Language https://alokgovil.com/gender-equality-in-communication-and-language/ https://alokgovil.com/gender-equality-in-communication-and-language/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:22:49 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=119 Men surely often do. Even women often use “him” when the gender of subject is not known. Through the ages women seem to have accepted these norms whether they like it or not. A customer or an engineer becomes a “him” by default. A receptionist, an assistant, a teacher becomes “her”. “Air Host” is barely […]

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